The Mid-Autumn Festival is a good day for family members to get together. When family members get together in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is bound to "eat and drink". So what criteria should we follow when choosing food? What foods are good for your health? What food must we eat in Mid-Autumn Festival? How to eat moon cakes healthily in Mid-Autumn Festival?

1. Must-eat food for Mid-Autumn Festival

1. Mooncakes

When it comes to festive food for Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone must immediately think of mooncakes. In fact, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival didn't prevail until the Ming Dynasty. Before that, the Mid-Autumn Festival food was still mainly melons and fruits. As for the origin of moon cakes, there is a legend among the people: at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people remembered to resist the rule of the Mongols, but they were unable to deliver the news. So Liu Bowen came up with a plan. It is said that there will be winter plague this year, unless every household buys moon cakes to eat on the Mid-Autumn Festival, it can be avoided. When I got home, I bit open the moon cake and found a note hidden inside, which read: "Kill the Tartars on Mid-Autumn Night and welcome the rebels!" " So many people revolted against the rulers, and this custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival stayed like this.

2. Water chestnut

Eating water chestnut in the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to make children grow smart. Most ways to eat water chestnut are to cook it with water (or salt water) and then peel it as a snack; You can also cook the shelled water chestnut with rice into salty white porridge. After eating sweet and greasy moon cakes, drink a bowl of water chestnut porridge, and the greasy stomach will be removed on the spot.

3. Chestnuts

When autumn is cool, the aroma of sugar-fried chestnuts begins to float in the streets. Chestnut, like taro and water chestnut, is also a must-eat snack in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chestnut is sweet and cold, and has the functions of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons. It is most suitable for autumn, and chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, which can also be tasted by diabetics in moderation, which is most suitable for the elderly and the weak. Chestnut can be eaten as snacks. Famous dishes include chestnut duck, chestnut roast chicken, chestnut stew chicken soup, etc. At the same time, it can give full play to the delicious taste of chestnut. It is essential to eat healthily in Mid-Autumn Festival.

4. Pomelo

Pomelo is one of the necessities of Mid-Autumn Festival, because "Pomelo" is homophonic with "You", which also means wishing the moon to bless. Eating sweet moon cakes, and then eating sweet and sour grapefruit, both appetizing and greasy, makes the mouth feel refreshed. Grapefruit tastes sweet and sour, slightly bitter, and is rich in vitamin C and a lot of other nutrients. It is recognized by the medical community as the fruit with the most dietotherapy benefits. It has the effects of lowering blood sugar, reducing blood fat, losing weight, beautifying the skin and nourishing the face, etc. If eaten frequently, it has the auxiliary treatment effect on diseases such as diabetes and arteriosclerosis, and has the function of strengthening the body and caring the face for obese people.

5. Reunion buns

Every Mid-Autumn Festival in Xi 'an, Shaanxi, every local family makes buns and the whole family eats a bun, which is called "Reunion buns". The steamed bun has a top layer and a bottom layer, with sesame seeds in the middle. On the top of the bun, a circle is extended with a big bowl, symbolizing the Mid-Autumn Festival night. A "stone" is carved in the circle, and a "little monkey" eating flat peaches stands on it. After the steamed buns are cooked in the pot, they are cut into fangs, one for each family, and one for the family when they go out for a short time. For married girls, the bride's family sends buns to the door to show that the whole family will not forget the reunion.

6. Ciba

Eating Ciba in the Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2, years ago, and it is a traditional custom that people have spread to this day to commemorate Wu Zixu, the general of Chu. Usually, people regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a lunar festival second only to the Spring Festival, which is known as the "off-year". Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the women at home got up early and began to get busy, pouring the cleaned glutinous rice into the wooden steamer and steaming it. After the glutinous rice is steamed, the male host of the family carries the wooden steamer to the courtyard dam, pours the delicious glutinous rice into the stone mound nest, and starts to pound it with a hammer or a wooden pestle in groups of two, while the children at home happily watch the adults pull and pound the glutinous rice around the stone mound nest, expecting to eat sweet glutinous rice.

7, Shandong Maijian

Speaking of Shandong Mid-Autumn Festival cuisine, Maijian is a kind of festive food eaten in Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival. It is first spread into pancakes with white flour, then added with meat stuffing or vegetarian stuffing, and then rolled into a tube with straw for steaming, and seasoned when eating, which is very delicious. It is said that on the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, Qingdao people not only want to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, but also improve their breakfast and lunch. Generally, they steam cakes and steamed buns to improve the food for their families. Maijian is one of them.

8. Pumpkins

Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River. Rich families eat moon cakes, while poor families have the custom of eating pumpkins. How did the custom of "eating pumpkins in August and a half" come from? Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with old parents and only one daughter named Huanghua. At that time, Huang Hua's parents were ill in bed after years of famine. On August 15th, Huang Hua found two oblate wild melons in the weeds in Nanshan. She picked it back and cooked it for her parents. After eating it, the two old people greatly increased their appetite and recovered. Miss Huanghua planted melon seeds in the ground, and the next year, they really took root and sprouted, and many round melons came out. Because they were picked from Nanshan, they were called pumpkins. From then on, every year on August 15th, every household in the south of the Yangtze River has a custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half.

9. Watermelon

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in Shaanxi, whether rich or poor, must eat watermelon, and the watermelon must be cut into lotus shapes. As a good product for relieving summer heat, it is cold and rich in sugar, which can clear away heat and purge fire, and has the effects of relieving diarrhea, diuresis, treating blood dysentery and relieving alcohol poisoning. When the Mid-Autumn Festival is full moon, while enjoying the cool and enjoying the moon, eating watermelon to relieve the summer heat is cool and pleasant, which adds to the family reunion. Moreover, after eating moon cakes, eat a piece of watermelon to clear away heat and relieve boredom. Over time, eating watermelon has become the habit of Shaanxi people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so today Shaanxi people will eat watermelon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Watermelon is cut into lotus shapes just to match the festive atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival and increase happiness and auspiciousness.

1, lotus root box

Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival also means sending a reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". Most people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang slice the lotus root, and the lower ends of each two slices are connected, and the stuffing made of meat and clam is sandwiched in the middle, and the noodles are fried until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes. At present, there are two main varieties of lotus root in the market, namely, seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This variety has excellent texture, tender meat, crisp, sweet and white. Chinese medicine believes that after being cooked, lotus root changes from cool to warm, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin and benefiting blood.

11. Crabs

Autumn is also the season for crabs, which is a good time for many gourmets who love seafood to try early. As early as the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ming Dynasty, crabs became the leading role of the audience. In the book "Meditate on the Middle Ages", it was written: "Steamed 5% to 6%, saved in groups ***

2. Eat moon cakes healthily in the Mid-Autumn Festival

1. Eat more fresh moon cakes

There are many kinds of moon cakes, so it is impossible to eat everything. If you choose several kinds of moon cakes you like to eat according to the population of a family, cut them into several portions and share them at the same time, you can taste a variety of flavors.

2. You should make a cup of hot tea when eating moon cakes.

Hot tea can quench your thirst, and it can remove peculiar smell, relieve greasy taste and help digestion. Pu 'er tea, green tea, jasmine tea and chrysanthemum tea are all good choices. If you don't drink tea, boiled water is fine, but it must be warm. Drinking cold drinks may lead to diarrhea.

3. Eat moon cakes in moderation

Moon cakes contain more oil and sucrose, and should not be eaten in excess, especially for the elderly, children and people with gastrointestinal dysfunction.

it must be remembered that mooncakes should not be eaten as a main meal, and it is better to eat them between meals. Eat less or not at night, especially not two hours before going to bed, and the elderly should pay special attention to this.

4. Eating moon cakes should be salty before they are sweet

Moon cakes are generally salty and sweet. For example, if you eat salty and sweet moon cakes together, you should eat salty first and then sweet. If you have moon cakes with different flavors such as fresh, salty, sweet and spicy, you should eat them in the order of fresh, salty, sweet and spicy in order to taste the taste of moon cakes.

5. Pay attention to the shelf life of moon cakes

Experts said that the packaging of moon cakes is becoming more and more high-grade, and many people give moon cakes as gifts to their relatives and friends, so many moon cakes are sent around several times before being opened for consumption. Because moon cakes are mainly composed of oil and sugar, they are easy to deteriorate. However, many people eat moon cakes knowing that their shelf life has passed, because they are expensive and have not tasted rancid. In fact, this is very harmful to the body. Eating expired food will cause acute gastroenteritis, and in severe cases, it may cause cancer. Therefore, we should also pay attention to the shelf life when eating moon cakes.

6. Sugar-free moon cakes also have sugar

Hu Tingting, a nutritionist at the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that the main ingredients of moon cakes on the market at present are flour, sugar, oil and ingredients, which are very high in calories, so eating more is not good for human health. As for the "healthy sugar-free" moon cakes on the market, Hu Tingting pointed out that the so-called sugar-free moon cakes only refer to those without sucrose. The core nuts in moon cakes and the starch outside will eventually be converted into sugar in the human body. If you eat too much, it will also cause the fat and blood sugar content to exceed the standard. Therefore, patients should eat sugar-free moon cakes in moderation. In addition, patients with cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, gastritis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease should not eat more moon cakes, even sugar-free moon cakes, in which eating too much peanuts and nuts will increase blood consistency, increase the burden on the heart and even induce myocardial infarction.

7. Some people should not eat moon cakes

For patients with gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, eating moon cakes will increase gastric acid secretion, which is not good for ulcer healing; Patients with chronic cholecystitis and chronic pancreatitis, eating moon cakes is easy to make their condition relapse, causing severe biliary colic and epigastric pain; Eating moon cakes for patients with gallstones will stimulate bile and easily lead to biliary colic, especially for young patients with gallstones, they must fast moon cakes; Patients with chronic diarrhea, acute hepatitis and convalescent hepatitis should also avoid eating moon cakes. In addition, patients with dental caries should eat moon cakes as little as possible and brush their teeth immediately after eating; Obesity, hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease patients eat moon cakes, the content of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood will increase, and the blood will become more viscous, so they must eat less.